Lynching and the Rise of Black Activism in Memphis
*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light “All the savor had gone out of life.
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“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis
*This is the introduction to our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light Richard Wright had to leave Memphis.
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History, Memory, and Racial Violence in America
In April 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) opened the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National
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“Left Exposed to View!”: Black Women and Sexualized Violence
In May 1962, Malcolm X delivered a commanding speech with his now infamous lines regarding the positionality of Black women:
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Black Women and the Scottsboro Boys
On March 25, 1931, nine young Black men—Haywood Patterson, Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Andy and Roy Wright, Olin Montgomery, Ozie
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